Finding active DTS packages
DTS is dead, long live SSIS. Way back when SQL 2005 was announced then released DTS was pronounced DOA. SSIS...
2013-12-09 (first published: 2013-11-27)
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Kenneth Fisher
Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE
I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which is...
2013-12-09
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Insert into a table using only default values
A while back I talked about the DEFAULT keyword and using it to tell SQL to use the default value...
2013-12-04
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Why do DBAs like to say “It Depends” so much?
Well the short answer is that they just don’t have enough information to give a definitive answer. You will notice...
2013-12-02
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Finding the metadata for a query
You know I occasionally find it interesting how I learn new things. I was running through a practice test for...
2013-11-25
2,220 reads
A pattern to do beginning of period calculations.
Beginning of period calculations are common things. Rolling month reports, queries to pull everything from last month etc require beginning...
2013-11-20
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Connection options in SSMS
When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SSMS there are a fair number of options. Most DBAs I know...
2013-11-18
1,537 reads
Who’s on call
Every morning we have a daily meeting and my manager asks who’s on call. And every morning some form of...
2013-11-13
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A better way to find missing indexes
I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a...
2013-11-11
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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V3.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Question of the Day
Checking Identities
The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 2 2 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 3 3 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 4 4 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 5 5 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 6 6 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 7 7 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 8 8 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 9 9 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 10 10 2025-01-11 2025-01-16The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above? See possible answers